AI 🤝 Designers

Happy Friday! I hope your week was everything you had hoped for. In today’s digest, I’m covering a new AI design tool built by the founder of Mixpanel. 

Some headlines: 

💬 Android users can now chat with Gemini in the Gmail app. 

💻 According to reports, cheaper Copilot enabled PC’s are on the way.

💰 Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft are in talks to join OpenAI’s funding round.

As AI continues to influence the creative world, design is becoming more accessible and versatile. Playground is a new app that takes this trend further, offering a space where anyone can create—from logos and t-shirts to social media posts and memes—with the help of AI.

Developed by Suhail Doshi, founder of product analytics tool Mixpanel and Mighty, a super fast browser, Playground aims to simplify the design process without sacrificing creativity.

The app is powered by Playground v3, a beta foundation model that enhances prompt understanding, artistic text generation, and photorealistic output. The goal isn’t to replace designers but to give them a tool that makes the design process more intuitive and flexible.

Once you sign up, you can quickly get started with one of the pre-built templates, or if you’re a seasoned designer, you can drop in your own assets. From there, the AI, Playground v3, helps generate text and images based on your input, which you can then easily customize through the app’s interface.

It’s got some pretty big backers, too, having secured $40 million in funding from Paul Graham and Garry Tan, the YC president, among a bunch of others.

Playground doesn’t intend to replace designers. Rather, it aims to leverage AI to help designers and non-designers quickly move from idea to finished product. So, if you’ve been wracking your brain trying to get a design done, maybe give AI a shot. 

Did the sneakers above catch your eye? Good, they should. I mean, who wouldn’t want to rock these at their next investor meeting? We’re cooking up something pretty cool with our friends over at RevenueCat. 

Want to be the first to know about it? Make sure to follow both Product Hunt and RevenueCat on X.

If you’re at all clued into the tech scene, you’ve probably heard of the Arc browser. It’s a chromium-based browser that flips the script a little with a few nifty features and a kind of whimsical design. A lot of folks love it, some not so much. 

Our Head of Growth, Jason Levin, did a deep dive to understand what makes Arc tick and finally determine whether it’s worth the hype.

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